4. Add value, not noise.
The Internet has granted access to soap boxes and pulpits that might just be better left on mute. But anyone in a wi-fi hotspot can now elevate banal and inane chitchat to a level of publishable content. As believers, we need to apply our Lord’s standards of communication to every message we post.
Eph 4:29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths [or Twitter accounts, or Facebook pages, or WordPress blogs], but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Prov 10:19-21 When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent. The tongue of the righteous is choice silver; the heart of the wicked is of little worth. The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.
The irony of posting this message on a blog is not lost on me. But I hope you will apply the parts of this that you believe honor the Lord.
And I really hope you aren’t reading this while someone is talking to you in real life.
